British twins have different skin color

[Ivo Banaco]

Can we say something about this...is this just a "rare occurrence"? Is
something else going on here? Who knows...

British twins have different skin colorIn a rare occurrence, boys inherited
different genetic codes from mother[image: IMAGE: Layton (r) and Kaydon
Richardson]Twins Layton (right) and Kaydon Richardson (left) from
Middlesbrough, are officially one in a million after one was born black and
the other one white.
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updated 7:15 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2006

LONDON - A pair of British twin boys has been born with different skin
color, a rare genetic occurrence according to experts.

In an interview with Britain's Sky News program, mother Kerry Richardson
said that the boys were both born white but as they've gotten older one of
the boys got darker and the other lighter.

Today, she says, the twins attract attention wherever they go.





It happened twice to this couple...

Couple has twins of a different color
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LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A mixed-race couple in Britain for the second time
find themselves parents of twin girls -- one born with light skin and one
with dark skin.

Miya was born with dark skin like her father, Dean Durrant, while Leah was
born with white skin like her mother, Alison Spooner, 27, the Sun reported
Wednesday.

Their twin daughters born seven years earlier also have different skin tones
-- Lauren with white skin and red hair and Hayleigh with black hair and dark
skin, the Sun reported.

"We didn't think it was even possible when we had Lauren and Hayleigh - and
it didn't cross our minds that it could happen again. But we are just
delighted that it has," Durrant said of his latest daughters, born Nov. 13
at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey.
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